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Dr. Frederic E. Wondisford is a professor of pediatrics, physiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A specialist in endocrinology and metabolism, Dr. Wondisford is the director of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Initiative. This multidisciplinary effort integrates and expands on the many diabetes-related patient care, research and educational activities under way in the Johns Hopkins Health System.

Dr. Wondisford is the director of the JHU-UMD Diabetes Research Center, at which investigators conduct multidisciplinary diabetes and endocrinology research that is translated into programs to teach clinicians to better diagnose and manage diabetes. He is also the director of the Division of Metabolism at the John’s Hopkins Children’s Center.

He earned his medical degree at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He completed a residency at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals and an endocrinology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He joined Johns Hopkins in 2005 from the University of Chicago, where he led its Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and directed its Diabetes Research and Training Center.

He has a broad range of research interests related to endocrinology and metabolism, and has published more than 120 scholarly articles. He received the Barry Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2014.